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|   From: david@WUBIOS.WUSTL.EDU (David J. Camp)
|   In Reply to this Note From: <Michael Mclay>
|   >...
|   >attempts to impose morality on others.  While I like many of the
|   >FSF products, I absolutely disagree with your distribution tactics.
|   [text deleted]
|
|   Then do not use GNU software.
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What he said in his note was that a lot of people couldn't use FSF
software because of the distribution policy.  So telling him not to use
it is pretty stupid.

Is there some reason why he shouldn't express his opinion of the FSF
policy, or is it a condition of posting here that you sign a loyalty
oath?
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|   You are welcome to charge as high a fee for gnu software as you wish.
|   You are not welcome to restrict the rights of others to disseminate
|   information.  -David-
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So, what does that last sentence mean?  What he said was that if FSF
allowed unrestricted use of its software, some people who cannot now use
it would be able to.  In what arcane way does that get mapped into
"restrict[ing] the rights of others to disseminate information"?

Restricting the distribution of your products for political reasons is
in no way different from restricting their distribution for economic
reasons; the equivalence of political power and economic power is hardly a
new concept.

I have no problem with the FSF restricting its software in any way it
chooses -- that's the way it should be.  But I am also free to resent
the FSF cloaking itself in the mantle of virtue while doing the things
it decries.

I have no problem with the FSF's supporters expressing loudly their
adherence to the politically correct line -- free expression is the very
greatest good.  But I am also free to despise those who parrot party
line dogma and who are apparently incapable of listening to a civil
statement of a different position and responding to it rationally.

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